| Show reclamation PROJECT monroe people to add to arable land fifteen hundred acres on south bench to be reclaimed by v big reservoir scheme from monroe 4 ome come a story of a project which means the reclamation of about 1400 acres of choice farming land on the bench south of town and which will add much to the firming farming area of that town years ago the people of monroe hought bought andreas bertelson bertelsen a very foolish man be built a small ditch from the mouth of monroe cannon onto the land south a dry and uninviting shad clale bench the ditch had a capacity of carrying about aen en second feet of water during the high water mr air bertelson is 13 now hailed as ab a man who better than the people of monroe knew III hii scheme hs appealed to a number of gentlemen as a very nery feasible one and they haje hae now arranged for the enlargement of the ditch so 0 o as to give it a carrying capacity of af 40 second feet of ater it has ha been demonstrated that the I agh gh bench lands around monroe are tetter letter for the raising of beets and hay than even the fertile bottom lands not only v will ill the land produce a larger tonnage of beets per acre but there is nothing better in thib this section tor for the raising of fruit than this thib same berich bench lind the proposed canal will be of capacity to take care of tile the bur plus gatei in the spring v inch has heretofore caused trouble to ane fal fai iners in che bottom lards the big high n atel of erring wil i I 1 it no noa I 1 lc othe the I 1 da burle of supply for thib new project A system ot it reservoirs reservoir will be con truc ted on monroe I 1 i about eight miles from the mouth of the canyon the sites for thu the reservoirs bae ba e been loc located ted and while the cost of construction will be gibat yet the chemo has enough land embraced to make it pay the winter water wi will 11 H be stored and this will be released in the latter end of april ol 01 the beginning of may when the water begins the reservoirs will be refilled and the thus stored will be relea released ted for the july irrigation it is figured that enough v ater willbe thus stored to viter the land three a times suring during the summer growing season in addition to supplying water for the early irrigations irrigation the scheme to nel filase ri lase ase the water has another object th ill i i of releasing the water before it i r e mes stagnant and befouled e in borage basins according to it 11 igi figurel the cost of the it i iris will be greater than the j i u ration project but the lo 10 i I 1 i he canal will just about olt off as the canal will r re e than about 1 per acre wa vi reservoirs will cost from ir per oer acre the state canal adna lu lia from 6 to 10 per acre A iture of the storage water will be th t it will pass over the monree creek sink a lagabed rethe creek water all disappears to reappear further down the canyon this is acknowledged to be the greatel natural filter known in this region and the storage water would come from this bed of lava in a pure state among the gentlemen interesting themselves in the project are 11 N hayes J H ericksen Ericks tn n magleby bros al winget and sons and lewis jones aali A these men are practical in all that they undertake and these names are a guarantee of stability hayes and ericksen already have a tract of the new lend land under fence and the project is a sure go |
